Sumiko Hidaka Movies

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was...

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

A group of men obsessed with oil gather in a remote oil field region. Ichiro Kitazawa (Tatsuzaki) was one of them. He had a daughter-in-law named...

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.

1947 Japanese movie

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his...

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.